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Have a wonderful Christmas, and a very happy new year from Palm Sounds. I'll be taking a longer break this year so the blog will be quiet for a while now, but I'll see you all in the new year. Enjoy your break and make lots of music wherever you are!

I thought I'd post up some more shots of the GuitarJack 2 and how it works with FourTrack. I have to say that the software / hardware integration is very slick indeed and a big improvement on the first version.

But what really strikes you is the quality of the GuitarJack 2. Not just the external build quality, but the sound quality through the device. I can't remember where I read it, but I remember that someone had written that they thought that there was something wrong with the guitarjack when they plugged in their guitar because there was no noise, but it wasn't broken, just noiseless. Well I found that too. The line in is great too, it works very well to have a stereo in for the iPhone or iPad.

My main planned use of this is recording iDevice to iDevice, but perhaps more of that another day. You could plug anything into the GuitarJack 2 and get great sound out of it I'm sure. The quality is amazing and completely configurable within FourTrack too, which is very handy.

I'll admit that I wanted to be impressed with the GuitarJack 2, but it has exceeded my expectations quite easily. Very nice job Sonoma, excellent job.

What I would have liked to see come inside the box was a case for the device itself, or perhaps a case for it and an iPhone to make it even more secure. Perhaps that will come in the future.

You can find out more about the GuitarJack 2 including where to buy it via the Sonomasite.

As you may have guessed I haven't done a developer poll in the end. So many people said that they'd like to do things differently or weren't sure about a poll that selected a single developer as a winner. I can understand and agree to a degree.

So I decided to not do it at all again this year. In a sense, picking who is best out of so many excellent apps and their developers is almost a negative process, so instead I'd like take the opportunity to say a massive thank you to all the developers out there who've made or updated such amazing apps in 2011.

It has been, without a doubt an amazing year for mobile music and probably the most exciting year to date.

So thanks again for all the amazing apps and for everyone involved. Here's to 2012.

The wait list seems really small now, but I guess that's to be expected as the year's almost done. If I've missed anything just let me know. I just thought it would be good to get one more in before the end of the year.

If you don't know these applications, they're for the now long abandoned Palm operating system, but if you're interested you should get yourself a Pam Tungsten T3 from eBay or a Palm Tungsten TX for that matter and try these applications out. They're certainly worth the cost of a second hand device.

In fact, even if you don't plan to get the hardware anytime soon I'd advise you to get the software just in case it vanishes at some point.